Jack Tchen, Founding director, A/P/A Institute; Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. "Haunting the American Dream: Eugenics, Meritocracy, Spatial Sorting & the Origins of Our Present Crisis"Co-sponsored by CSREG

A faculty/staff reading group on Lani Guinier's 2015 book, The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America. The discussion will be facilitated by Prof. Abe Feuerstein (education).

Fall 2014

September 2014

Open House CSREG/Women's and Gender Studies

Film and Discussion. Screening of "Nashville: We Were Warriors" followed by discussion focusing on the early civil rights movement and nonviolent activism. Facilitators: David Ragland (education) and Jennifer Thomson (history). Part of a series of events sponsored jointly by the Bucknell Institute of Public Policy and CSREG on The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act: Fifty Years After.

Diane Nash. "The Movements of the '60s: A Legacy for Today"A Chicago native who had never experienced segregation in public accommodations before moving to the South, Diane Nash went on to become one of the pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement. || Read moreAnnual Black Experience LectureThe 2014 Black Experience Lecture is part of a series of events sponsored jointly by the Bucknell Institute of Public Policy and CSREG on The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act: Fifty Years After.

October 2014

"Origins and Aftermath of the 1964 Civil Rights Act" Panelists: Michael James (political science), Scott Meinke (political science) and Leslie Patrick (history).Part of a series of events sponsored jointly by the Bucknell Institute of Public Policy and CSREG on The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act: Fifty Years After.

Februrary 2014

Brenda Brueggemann, Director of the University Writing Program at the University of Louisville. "Aktion T-4: Economics, Euthanasia, Eugenics. (A Journey to the Heart of the Nazi's Killing Program for People with Disabilities)" Disability Studies Speaker Series

March 2014

Robert Whitaker, science and medical writer/journalist. "Mad in America" Disability Studies Speaker Series

April 2014

Barbara Weinstein, Silver Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at New York University. "From Enslaver of Indians to Symbol of Progress: the Bandeirante and Brazilian Regional Identity" Co-sponsored by CSREG.

Anne McClintock, Simone de Beauvoir Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. "US Empire, Paranoid Masculinity, and the Gendered Dynamics of Torture." Women's and Gender Studies Distinguished LectureCo-sponsored with the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.

Sally Potter, independent British filmmaker and screenwriterCo-sponsored by CSREG.

Fall 2013

September 2013

October 2013

Film Screening and Discussion "Fruitvale Station" Facilitators Dave Ragland, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education and Anthony Stewart, Professor of EnglishCo-sponsored with Multicultural Student Services and the Department of Political Science.

Joseph Valente, Penn State, Early Childhood Education and Co-director of the Center for Disability Studies."How Deaf Children Learn to be Deaf: Bilingual Kindergartens in France, Japan, and the United States" Disability Studies Speaker Series

November 2013

Felix Muruchi Poma and Linda Farthing, Bolivian activist and U.S. journalist. "From the Mines to the Streets"Co-sponsored by CSREG. Additional sponsors include the Meerwarth Speakers Fund, the Latin American Studies Program, and the Departments of Sociology & Anthropology, Economics, International Relations, Spanish, and Political Science.

Open HouseOpen House for CSREG and Womens and Gender Studies

Bastian Heinsohn, German.. "The Language of the Street: On the Use of Graffiti in Post-­‐Unification Berlin Films" CSREG Faculty Colloquium

Spring 2013

January 2013

Queer Film Series: "Pariah" (2011)Co-sponsored by the Office of LGBT Awareness, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Samek Art Gallery

Film Screening of "Hermans's House" a look at the injustice of solitary confinement and the transformative power of art.Co-sponsored event

Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law, fellow in the Engaging Tradition Project at Columbia Law School. "Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law" Co-sponsored with the Office of LGBT

February 2013

Koritha Mitchell, Ohio State University. "Living with Lynching: African American Drama and Citizenship" Co-sponsored with the Office of MSS

Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Temple University Department of History. "Lock Up America: Why Mass Incarceration Matters to our Cities, our Economy, and our Democracy"Part of the 2012-13 Social Science Colloquium: Mass Incarceration in the United States

Queer Film Series: "Weekend" (2011) Rated: NR Co-sponsored by the Office of LGBT Awareness, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Samek Art Gallery

Film Screening of "Jonestown: The Life and Death of the People's Temple" with post-screening discussion with Emmy-winning producer Stanley Nelson.Co-sponsored with the Griot Institute

Public lecture by Stanley Nelson, Emmy-winning producer.Co-sponsored with the Griot Institute

March 2013

Queer Film Series: "Mosquita y Mari" (2012) Co-sponsored by the Office of LGBT Awareness, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Samek Art Gallery

"People, Policies & Prisons: Experiences with Incarceration in PA" This event features a panel discussion of the policy-based social and economic factors that contribute to criminal behavior and sentencing, and also shape the experiences of incarceration and re-entry into society. The panel features: John Wetzel, Secretary of the PA Department of Corrections, Ann Schwartzman, Policy Director at the Pennsylvania Prison Society, Tyrone Werts, Executive Director of the Lifers Safety Initiative, formerly incarcerated at SCI Graterford, and Tina Dixon Spence, Executive Assistant to the Director of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, formerly incarcerated at SCI Muncy.Part of the 2012-13 Social Science Colloquium: Mass Incarceration in the United States

April 2013

Fall 2012

September 2012

Michelle Alexander, civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. Part of the 2012-13 Social Science Colloquium: Mass Incarceration in the United States

Augustine Romero, Director of Student Equailty for Tuscon Unified School District. "At War with the State in Order to Save the Lives of Our Children: Education a the Battleground for Arizona's Cultural War"

"USP Lewisburg: A Contested Space?" Moderator: Leslie Patrick (history); Panelist consisting of: Jeff Thomas, Warden of the Federal Penitentiary; Dave Sprout, Paralegal with the Lewisburg Prison Project; Glenn Crook, former chaplain at USP Allenwood FCC; Karen Morin (geography); Dave Bartlett, President of AFGE Local 148, the American Federation of Government Employees.Part of the 2012-13 Social Science Colloquium: Mass Incarceration in the United States

November 2012

Christopher Wildeman, Dept. of Sociology, Yale UniversityPart of the 2012-13 Social Science Colloquium: Mass Incarceration in the United States

Sylvia De Faveri, Brunel University in London, U.K. "Street Gangs and Military Metaphors: The Kulunas of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)"Part of the 2012-13 Social Science Colloquium: Mass Incarceration in the United States

Farah Jasmine Griffin, the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia UniversityPart of the Griot Institute's "Post-Racial America?: An Interdisciplinary Conference"

Reverend Walt Everett and Mr. Mike CarlucciPart of the 2012-13 Social Science Colloquium: Mass Incarceration in the United States

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